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The reactions of law enforcement officers to the Black Lives Matter protests have proven that local police departments are both irresponsible and discriminatory when utilizing military weapons. I sign this petition urging that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter suspend the 1033 Weapons Transfer Program that authorizes the transfer of military equipment to local U.S. police departments.

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Citizens, especially unarmed people, do NOT need a militarized police force! This puts us into a police state, and is completely unacceptable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

12762

1 year ago

Anonymous

Menominee,
MI

12761

1 year ago

Vanessa Jamison

Marysville,
WA

12760

1 year ago

Sydney Alonso

Norwich,
VT

12759

1 year ago

Sydney Alonso

Norwich,
VT

12758

1 year ago

Jacqueline Springwater

Norwich,
VT

12757

1 year ago

Susan Osada

Buffalo Grove,
IL

12756

1 year ago

Elizabeth Conn

Madison ,
WI

12755

1 year ago

Barbara Zilles

Iowa City,
IA

This is America -- not Stalinist (or even Putinist) Russia!

12754

1 year ago

Joan Cecere

Spring Lake,
NJ

12753

1 year ago

Emma Walker-Thomas

Glenmont ,
NY

12752

1 year ago

Matthew Margulies

Santa Barbara,
CA

clearly, military weaponization of city police has and is a step in the wrong direction !

12751

1 year ago

Tom Camarella, JD

Culver City,
CA

12750

1 year ago

Anne del Prado

Freeport,
TX

Police do better in communities, where they come with open hands, in friendship than in communities where they go armed to the teeth. Learn to be servers of the community, not attackers and ene...

12749

1 year ago

Anne del Prado

Freeport,
TX

Police do better in communities, where they come with open hands, in friendship than in communities where they go armed to the teeth. Learn to be servers of the community, not attackers and ene...

12748

1 year ago

Anonymous

Hanover Township,
PA

Very few local police departments, such as New York City and Los Angeles, have any real need for the weapons of war provided by the Pentagon. The continued availability of these weapons is turning A...

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